Champions League Group Stage Draw

StickyMcGinty

typical united

yom 1

GROUP A
Bayern Munich
Juventus
Club Brugge
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GROUP B
ARSENAL
Ajax
Sparta Prague
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GROUP C
Barcelona
Panathinaikos
Werder Bremen
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GROUP D
MAN UTD
Villarreal
Lille
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GROUP E
AC Milan
PSV Eindhoven
Schalke
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GROUP F
Real Madrid
Lyon
Olympiakos
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GROUP G
LIVERPOOL
CHELSEA
Anderlecht
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GROUP H
Inter Milan
Porto
RANGERS
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Chong

Tough draw for manu .

evilhomer

Benfica and Betis are the two best teams left to be drawn

PHB

Offs, I think we are definally in the running for group of death.

Man Utd
Villarreal - 3rd in Spanish
Lille - 2nd in France
Benfica - Portugesse Champions?

yermandan

happy days,we're as good as through

lille
benfica
villareal

defo not a group of death.

~Rebel~

what is it with these coincidence draws?! it really must be a fix, what are the odds of Villarreal drawing Manu U, Liverpool drawing Chelsea AND Milan drawing PSV

Big Ears

PHB wrote:

Offs, I think we are definally in the running for group of death.

Man Utd
Villarreal - 3rd in Spanish
Lille - 2nd in France
Benfica - Portugesse Champions?

I think Milan's is worse . so far .

MrJoeSoap

The Insider wrote:

Utd through to the knockout already.... :mad: :mad:

PHB wrote:

Offs, I think we are definally in the running for group of death.

WDK wrote:

Tough draw for manu .

Some differing opinions here!

el rabitos

united always get **** french teams. w@ankers.

as for pool, i'm glad we have chelsea. less travelling to do and we know them already. hope we get betis too

MrJoeSoap

~Rebel~ wrote:

what are the odds of Villarreal drawing Manu U

I really don't see a coincidence here! Is it because of Forlan?

Chardee MacDennis

Liverpool
Chelsea
Anderlecht
Betis

has to be the most difficult group, what a fix

super_furry

Betis
Chelsea
Anderlecht
European Champions.

I'd be confident the Reds will get out of that group. Should take at least three points from Chelsea - their players will freeze again at Anfield on a big European night.

Brian017

But at least Man Utd in a toughish group with tough games. That'll help them if they progress to the knockout stages. Having easy group didn't help them in the last 2 years imo.

The Insider

Full Draw...

Group A -
Bayern
Juventus
Club Brugge
Rapid Vienna

Group B -
Arsenal
Ajax
Sparta
FC Thun

Group C -
Barcelona
Panathinaikos
Bremen
Udinese


Group D -
Man U
Villarreal
Lile
Benfica

Group E -
AC Milan
PSV
Schalke
Fenerbache

Group F-
Real Madrid
Lyon
Olympiacos
Rosenborg

Group G -
Liverpool
Chelsea
Anderlecht
Real Betis

Group H -
Inter Milan
Porto
Rangers
Artmedia Bratislava

Pepe LeFrits

Group C and E look a bit lopsided there Insider...

el rabitos

haha, nice.

liverpool
chelsea
anderlecht
betis

2 teams benitez knows well in our group. so we'll be going through methinks

~Rebel~

Group G -
Liverpool
Chelsea
Anderlecht
Real Betis

Bollocks.

MrJoeSoap

For all ye claiming a fix, see here .

The Insider

Initial reaction...Arsenal and Man U to get through, but Benfica in there group did not help them...as for Chelsea and Liverpool tough group...Anderlecht are easy enough but Real Betis will be tough..Rafa going back to Spain.

I will make the bold prediction that all 4 english teams will go through.

super_furry

Brian017 wrote:

But at least Man Utd in a toughish group with tough games. That'll help them if they progress to the knockout stages. Having easy group didn't help them in the last 2 years imo.

Are you mad? Their group is yet another walk in the park. Honestly, the last time they had a genuinely tough group was 1999.

PHB

ouch, tough draw for Liverpool and Chelsea aswell.

AC milan have two tough teams, and a walkover.
United have three tough teams.
Liverpool and Chelsea have one tough team, and I think theres a chance one of them might not get through.
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Arsenal have a piss easy draw
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I'm kinda happier with the tougher draw, its not incredibly hard, and I think we can win it, but I'd like at least one walkover
Villarreal are a shockingly good team.
Lille I dont know much about, but 2nd in FR speaks for itself.
Benefica

p.pete

super_furry wrote:

Betis
Chelsea
Anderlecht
European Champions.

I'd be confident the Reds will get out of that group. Should take at least three points from Chelsea - their players will freeze again at Anfield on a big European night.

I still don't think that it was a goal against Chelsea - they'll be out for revenge. Betis I expect will be tough and I don't know about Anderlect. I was hoping for Rangers after we got Chelsea, would have made for an interesting group.

Davei141

Arsenal yet again have the most piss easy group...when will they ever get a half decent team before the knockouts.

Pepe LeFrits

Arsenal play Ajax yet again. I'm sick of the sight of them. 'Easy' looking group otherwise. An eastern European team in there as usual.

I wonder what the odds were on Milan getting PSV and Liverpool getting Chelsea?

Group E looks the toughest to me.

meepmeep

Hehe Rangers get Artmedia Bratislava. We have to beat them now after the slaggin we gave Celtic

Gonna be tough with Porto and Inter though - can't see us getting through....

Oriel

Aw Bollocks.

gimmick

Wonder how Rangers will fare against the mighty Artmedia Bratislava?

PiE

Odds on Chelsea not going through?

ntlbell

sinecurea wrote:

Aw Bollocks.

what's with liverpool fans and the word bollocks ?

look this isn't a tough draw for the pool it could be a lot worse, who cares who you get? your the champions of europe and if your going to reatain it *giggle* you have to beat the best of the best now or later and Anderlecht and Real Betis are hardly the kings of europe so if you can't qualify out of this group then maybe you shouldn't have been let it in!

and after putting out one of the most dominate teams in europe of recent years TNS why worry LOL

evad_lhorg

Arsenal and Barca are as good as through.


out of all the groups i see these going through

Group A

Bayern and Juve

Group B

Arsenal and Ajax

Group C

Barca and Udinese

Group D

Man u and Villareal

Group E

AC and PSV

Group G

Chelsea and maybe Liverpool

Group H

Inter and Porto.

-oRnein9-

Not a bad draw for United, there will be some tough away games, but it's the best we could of hoped for. Gwan the Red Devils!

Töpher

I'll laugh so hard if Utd get worse than 2-2 home result with Lille That would prove once and for all that Shelbourne are a far superior team Lol.

MrJoeSoap

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I'll laugh so hard if Utd get worse than 2-2 home result with Lille That would prove once and for all that Shelbourne are a far superior team Lol.

I don't need proof.

Davei141

Lille destroyed shelbourne in france

meepmeep

I think Inter will have to play their 3 home games in an empty stadium because they got the 4 match stadium ban after the AC Milan game last year, and their game last night was the first of those

Which should be advantageous for the other teams in the group, especially since they only drew with Shakhtar Donetsk in last nights game.

The coach had this to say about it:

"You cannot play football in a situation like this one," said coach Roberto Mancini. "To play at an empty stadium is absurd and it would be better to play in these cases on the road."

Still not confident of Rangers beating them, but every little helps!

Pepe LeFrits

Saw the sum of the group coefficients posted elsewhere:

1 F 296.03
2 E 273.374
3 G 266.53
4 C 258.398
5 A 256.041
6 D 247.253
7 H 240.256
8 B 196.119

Who says Arsenal got an easy group??

Töpher

Davei141 wrote:

Lille destroyed shelbourne in france

Yeah, Christ that 2-0 was one hell of a walloping. :rolleyes:

Dont be at yourself

Liverpool - Chelsea games are gonna be great to watch, there was a real rivalry between them last season, and it will have gotten a lot worse since the win in May and the Stevie G will-he-wont-he fiasco. Anderlecht and Betis are both potential banana skins, they're certainly no worse than the teams we struggled against at the same stage last year.

mike65

Liverpool - we don't do it the easy way! I'd be comfident of both us and Chelsea going through. Rafa knows his spanish onions and will have Real Betis well sorted.

Mike.

RasTa

PHB wrote:

Offs, I think we are definally in the running for group of death.

Man Utd
Villarreal - 3rd in Spanish
Lille - 2nd in France
Benfica - Portugesse Champions?

Your joking right ? We will walk that group. The day as a United fan i become scared of any of those teams is the day we have turned into Leeds!
I predict 4 wins and 2 draws for us.

Necronomicon

Diego returns to Old Trafford....had to happen

jubbly

Davei141 wrote:

Lille destroyed shelbourne in france

they didnt destroy us.. they beat us 4-2 on aggregate. They are a good outfit though

Davei141

I dont think shelbourne even got a shot on target that game, lille had so many great chances it could of easily been a rout.

eirebhoy

meepmeep wrote:

I think Inter will have to play their 3 home games in an empty stadium because they got the 4 match stadium ban after the AC Milan game last year, and their game last night was the first of those

Here's a pic of the board in Inter jersey's:
http://img379.imageshack.us/img379/8533/clipimage0022cp.jpg

wheres me jumpa

man u fan very happy right here. its by no means a walkover but hardly the group of death. if united have any realistic hopes of lifting the trophy this group should be no probs.

liverpool and chelsea games should be crackers. chelsea should coast through it with the liverpool games the exception. i can see liverpool dropping points elsewhere in that group so it could be a tough one for the pool imo.

Bateman

Liverpool will struggle, Betis might have their number. I'd predict Chelsea and Betis to qualify. Betis beat Barca in the Camp Nou last week, although it was the second leg of the Super Cup, and although Barca had already won the first leg easily, Betis are very dangerous.

mike65

The good news for Liverpool is that the pundits/critics are already wriring us off so it'll be back-to-back wins then! Paddy Agnew (Irish Times man in Italy)on The Last Word said Pool had lady luck on her side throughout the last CL (patent crap but anyway) and they'd be gone by the end of the group stage and prolly finnish bottom.

Mike.

robbie1876

Bloody hell, Arsenal away matches in Prague and Amsterdam!! It'll be like going on two stag weekends!! Can't wait...

Jivin Turkey

Bateman wrote:

Liverpool will struggle, Betis might have their number.

That seems pretty conclusive. If anyone were to have anyones number Id imagine it is more likely to be the other way around seeing as Benetiz probably wouldnt have to do any research on Betis.

Bateman wrote:

Betis beat Barca in the Camp Nou last week

Well now Im a bit scared.

Bateman wrote:

although it was the second leg of the Super Cup

Less scared.

Bateman wrote:

and although Barca had already won the first leg easily

Even less scared.

Betis wont be a pushover, but outside Joaquin they dont have many world beateres. They hardly have a wealth of experience at European level either.

I wouldnt look forward to any Liverpool-Chelsea games either, SkySports might build them up but I reckon they are more likely to be 0-0 bore fests than 3-3 crackers.